{"id":1954,"date":"2025-06-07T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:35:58","slug":"starchild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/starchild\/","title":{"rendered":"Starchild"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Title<\/td><td>The Twentieth Anniversary Nearly-Complete Essential Starchild<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Issue<\/td><td>All issues<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Publisher<\/td><td>Coppervale Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Flagship Artist<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/james-owen\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2871\">James A. Owen<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Story Rating<\/td><td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cover Rating<\/td><td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Genre<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/tag\/fantasy\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"467\">Fantasy<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Links<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23929705-the-twentieth-anniversary-nearly-complete-essential-starchild\">Goodreads<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Limited to 2,000 copies with 6 optional bookplates.<br><br>In the Summer of 2013, on the 20th Anniversary of the first issue\u2019s publication, a Kickstarter project was launched to present a collected volume of every page of story and art of StarChild. That Kickstarter has successfully completed, and in October 2014, a deluxe hardcover prestige-bound book was released\u2014this book.<br><br>Collecting all the stories, including the first two storylines, AWAKENINGS and CROSSROADS, the &#8220;Little Neil&#8221; short stories from the anthology NEGATIVE BURN; the long story &#8220;Hobblesmith&#8221;; the unfinished MYTHOPOLIS chapters that have never geen reprinted, all the development sketches and notes; guest illustrations and art features from some of James&#8217;s friends almost everything associated with the title STARCHILD &#8211;in black &amp; white, that is. AND the Prologue and First Chapter of the forthcoming illustrated novel, FOOL&#8217;S HOLLOW.<br><br>The &#8220;Nearly Complete&#8221; addendum to the title is there simply to let readers, especially NEW readers, know that the story may go on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"1250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/starchild.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/starchild.jpeg 922w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/starchild-221x300.jpeg 221w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/starchild-755x1024.jpeg 755w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/starchild-768x1041.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title The Twentieth Anniversary Nearly-Complete Essential Starchild Issue All issues Publisher Coppervale Press Flagship Artist James A. Owen Story Rating \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Cover Rating \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Genre Fantasy Links Goodreads Limited to 2,000 copies with 6 optional bookplates. In the Summer of 2013, on the 20th Anniversary of the first issue\u2019s publication, a Kickstarter project was launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[467],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics","tag-fantasy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}